"Reality has a way of asserting itself...." - Quote by Barack Obama

“I just want to go through Central Park and watch folks passing by. Spend the whole day watching people. I miss that.”

“We the people declare today that the most evident of truth that all of us are created equal ... that our individual freedom is inextricably bound to the freedom of every soul on Earth.”

“Nobody's madder than me about the website not working as well as it should, which means it's going to get fixed.”

“Most fears in life rarely come to fruition.”

“But chiefly, no lies! No lies about there being a Santa Claus or about the world being full of noble and honorable people all eager to help each other and do good to each other. I'll tell her there are honor and goodness in the world, the same as there are diamonds and radium.”

“The real question is: How much truth can I stand?”

“There is nothing so delightful as the hearing, or the speaking of truth. For this reason, there is no conversation so agreeable as that of the man of integrity, who hears without any intention to betray, and speaks without any intention to deceive.”

“If you don't read the newspaper, you're uninformed. If you read the newspaper, you're mis-informed.”

“And do so, love, yet when they have devisedWhat strainèd touches rhetoric can lend,Thou, truly fair, wert truly sympathizedIn true plain words by thy true-telling friend;And their gross painting might be better usedWhere cheeks need blood; in thee it is abused.”